“pray you get the printer set up” is more of a windows thing. For ten years, over three versions of windows, I couldn’t get printing to work reliably. Switched to Linux, no problems since

Also, the new hardware thing is not really true anymore. Most things are supported from the get-go, or at least within a few weeks

Louis Gee

Don’t know how your get one from the other. I can think that state socialist experiments were flawed, misguided, and ultimately destined for autocracy, and still think that targeting them with imperialist intervention is wrong.

Just because the US empire is evil doesn’t make everyone opposing them good. The world is not black and white.

Due to the myth of Hades and Persephone, the pomegranate is associated with the duality of life and death: https://greek.mythologyworldwide.com/the-symbolism-of-the-pomegranate-in-hades-and-persephones-story

I don’t think there’s any further link beyond a simple joke